Sound: /kənˈkɒkʃən/
concoct, transitive
verb. Make up of mixed ingredients (soup, drink, story, plot). Hence concoction.
In a sentence: “The cook made a
soup concoction.”
This word is
interesting in that it means the putting together of something, but in very different
context. A concoction can be a soup or a drink, which consists of different
ingredients. But it can also mean a story or a plot, which is in a way a
concoction of different events.
There is also the
phrase, a concoction of lies, which is simply a false story in order to defraud
people.
Note that
concoction can mean the mixture but also the preparation itself.
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